Dispute Over a Proposed Muslim Cemetery in a Massachusetts Town Ends in Settlement

Agreement allows for graveyard in Dudley, Mass.

BOSTON—Ending months of controversy, a small Massachusetts town has reached a settlement with an Islamic organization to allow for a Muslim cemetery in the community.

Dudley, a rural town on the Connecticut border, had been in a lengthy dispute with the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester over the group’s proposal to build a burial ground on former farmland. The state attorney general and the U.S. attorney’s office had warned local...